View from Stocks Lane, Warley Halifax
View of the agricultural land of Warley, near Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: Unknown
Date: not dated
Location: Warley
Format: Postcard - Mono
Document ID: 100109
Library ID: 34560858
Warley is a village west of Halifax on a level shelf halfway up the north flank of the Calder Valley. Warley, as Werlafeslei, is in the Domesday Book of 1086. It has the distinction of being a township and it has the name of Warley Town.
Warley grew as a farming area during the Middle Ages. A third of its population died in the Great Plague of the 14th century. Daniel Defoe rode through Warley on his travels through the North.
The township grew after the 18th century with the construction of the Cliff Hill Estate and in 1846 the Congregational Church was built in the village, reflecting the strong Nonconformist tradition of the area. The Industrial Revolution had limited visual effect, being concentrated on the water power in the valleys and towns.
More recently, Warley has changed from an agricultural village to a commuter settlement, though agriculture remains the principal land-use in the area.
